"For Sir Philip well knows
That _innuen-does_
Will serve him no longer in verse or in prose;
Since _twelve honest men_ have decided the cause,
And were judges of _fact_, tho' not judges of _laws_."

Lord Campbell and Mr. Harris both make another mistake with reference to
this ballad which I may perhaps be excused if I notice. They say that it
was composed on an unsuccessful prosecution of the _Craftsman_ by Sir
Philip Yorke, and that this unsuccessful prosecution was subsequent to
the successful prosecution of that paper on December 3rd, 1731. This was
not so: Sir Philip Yorke's unsuccessful prosecution, and to which of
course Pulteney's ballad refers, was in 1729, when Francklin was tried
for printing "The Alcayde of Seville's Speech," and, as the song
indicates, acquitted.

C.H. COOPER.

Cambridge, July 29. 1850.

* * * * *

NOTES ON MILTON.
(Continued from Vol. ii., p. 115)

_Comus._

On l. 8. (G.):--

"After life's fitful fever he sleeps well."

_Macbeth_, iii. 2.

On l. 101. (M.):--

"The bridegroom Sunne, who late the Earth had spoused,
Leaves his star-_chamber_; early in the _East_
He shook his sparkling locks."

Fletcher's _Purple Island_ C. ix. St. 1.

On l. 102. (M.):--

"And welcome him and his with _joy and feast_."
Fairfax's _Tasso_, B. i. St. 77.

On l. 155. (D.):--

"For if the sun's bright beams do _blear_ the sight
Of such as fix'dly gaze against his light."

Sylvester's _Du Bartas_. Week i. Day 1.

On l. 162. (G.):--

"Such reasons seeming plausible."

Warners _Albion's England_, p. 155. ed. 1612.

On l. 166. (G.):--

"We are a few of those collected here
That ruder tongues distinguish _villager_."

Beaumont and Fletcher's _Two Noble Kinsmen_, iii. 5.

On l. 215. (G.) "Unblemished" was originally (_Trin. Coll. Cam. MSS._)
written "unspotted," perhaps from Drayton:--

"Whose form unspotted chastity may take,"

On l. 254. (G.) Add to Mr. Warton's note, that after the creation of Sir
Robert Dudley to be Earl of Leicester by Queen Elizabeth in 1564, "He
sat at dinner in his _kirtle_." So says Stow in _Annals_, p. 658. edit.
1633.

On l. 290. (G.):--

"My wrinckl'd face,
Grown _smooth as Hebe's_."

Randolph's _Aristippus_, p. 18. 4to. ed. 1630.

On l. 297. (G.):--

"Of frame more than celestial."

Fletcher's _Purple Island_, C. 6. S. 28. p. 71. ed. 1633.

On l. 331. (G.):--

"Night